WDSU is looking for an Executive Producer who canoversee fast-paced newscasts in an even faster â€"paced news market. We need a driven, organized leader who canarticulate a vision for their shows and lead a team towards the vision. Theright candidate will be a leader who can develop multi-platform content thatsucceeds on air, on mobile, and on social media. Responsibilities include the ability tomanage, coach, and motivate a team of producers, reporters, anchors, and photojournalistswho are committed to excellence. The Executive Producer is responsible for theoverall content of assigned newscasts, manages all aspects of breaking news,and social engagement. The right candidate must be a pro when it comes toeffective communication and decision making under daily deadline pressure. Youmust have proven ability in making decisions based on strong ethics, a solidproducing background, and a desire to win. You must be able to research, pitch,and gather enterprise news stories, as well. The Executive Producer will workon recruiting producers and work closely with the News Director to implementwinning strategies for each newscast. The ideal candidate can handle BreakingNews when it comes and, when it doesn't, can still oversee a compelling productthat delivers interesting and relevant content to our viewers. Overseeing theproduct is only one facet of the job. You must also be a coach and a leaderwith the communications skills to make those you supervise better.

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversight of the preparation of a rundown and scripts for the newscasts
• Oversight of the use of all our graphics resources to enhance our presentation
• Coaching producers, reporters, and photojournalists
• Responding to breaking news
• Oversight of digital response to breaking news and social media engagement
• Writing compelling news stories in active voice
• Meeting deadlines
• News gathering
• Boothing newscasts when needed
• Posting stories and video on website and on mobile
• Leading editorial meetings and pitching enterprise stories in editorial meetings
• Must perform administrative duties including scheduling, performance reviews, training and providing critical feedback.
• Communicating effectively with news staff, promotions, and production/engineering

• Minimum of three years producing experience.
• Should have demonstrated experience in writing and be able to think visually.

• Have a strong sense of audience desires
• Possess outstanding communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and coordinate several crews and responsibilities simultaneously.
• An ability to summarize information into easy-to-understand components
• Creative presentation style, and ability to showcase all resources and elements
• Unwavering journalistic integrity and ethical standards
• Use of Adobe Premierediting system is a plus

• College degree in broadcast journalism, broadcast news or related field.
• Military training and experience will be considered.